Omar Torrijos' Role in Panamanian Revolutionary Process Reivindicated

Omar Torrijos' Role in Panamanian Revolutionary Process Reivindicated

Omar Torrijos' Role in Panamanian Revolutionary Process Reivindicated

Panama, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) The role played by general Omar Torrijos in favor of Panama and the defamation campaign by his detractors, centered the commemoration of 50 years since the coup d''état led by him.

'That crucial date has to be known and explained. For us it is the beginning of a successful national liberation stage. For the adversaries, it is the dark hour of a fierce dictatorship', said Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD), founded by Torrijos. 'For us and for the Panamanian people, it is the beginning of great social reivindications that were deferred for decades since the beginning of the Republic', he said and quoted, among others, the agrarian reform, labor code, workers' unionization, rural settlements, education, health, roads and electricity.

Gonzalez made a historic analysis of the country's conditions at that moment he described as 'unworthy life of Panamanians', who also saw in the also called General of the poor, a committed leader with the national cause of Panama, that was the decolonization of the country occupied by the United States for a century.

He recognized there was a 'coup d'état', but invited to analyzwe what happened afterward with that process that was 'born by force and that immediately became the force of the people itself'.

In that regard, he affirmed 'What really happened was a patriotic state assumption to rescue the country's sovereignty of the Canal'.

The PRD leader recalled that the uprising occurred amid the exhaustion of a political model 'dramatically degenerated', while the oligarchy was in power thanks to the obedience of the military institution that rebelled against it.

'The perverse attempts to erase his (Torrijo's) memory, crash before the reality that cannot be tarnished', he affirmed.

In his speech, several times ovationed a multitude yelling slogans, Gonzalez said: 'Like them or not, Panama has one of the most outstanding figures in the Latin American history of the Twentieth Century, who shines with its own light and the magnitude of his work and contribution to the building of a new Panama, free, sovereign and prosperous, are undeniable'.

And to stress the role of the disappeared leader, he said that 'before Torrijos we were a protectorate, made up and its insides kidnapped, after Torrijos we began the way to the sovereign nation'.

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Omar Torrijos' Role in Panamanian Revolutionary Process Reivindicated

Panama, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) The role played by general Omar Torrijos in favor of Panama and the defamation campaign by his detractors, centered the commemoration of 50 years since the coup d''état led by him.

'That crucial date has to be known and explained. For us it is the beginning of a successful national liberation stage. For the adversaries, it is the dark hour of a fierce dictatorship', said Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD), founded by Torrijos. 'For us and for the Panamanian people, it is the beginning of great social reivindications that were deferred for decades since the beginning of the Republic', he said and quoted, among others, the agrarian reform, labor code, workers' unionization, rural settlements, education, health, roads and electricity.

Gonzalez made a historic analysis of the country's conditions at that moment he described as 'unworthy life of Panamanians', who also saw in the also called General of the poor, a committed leader with the national cause of Panama, that was the decolonization of the country occupied by the United States for a century.

He recognized there was a 'coup d'état', but invited to analyzwe what happened afterward with that process that was 'born by force and that immediately became the force of the people itself'.

In that regard, he affirmed 'What really happened was a patriotic state assumption to rescue the country's sovereignty of the Canal'.

The PRD leader recalled that the uprising occurred amid the exhaustion of a political model 'dramatically degenerated', while the oligarchy was in power thanks to the obedience of the military institution that rebelled against it.

'The perverse attempts to erase his (Torrijo's) memory, crash before the reality that cannot be tarnished', he affirmed.

In his speech, several times ovationed a multitude yelling slogans, Gonzalez said: 'Like them or not, Panama has one of the most outstanding figures in the Latin American history of the Twentieth Century, who shines with its own light and the magnitude of his work and contribution to the building of a new Panama, free, sovereign and prosperous, are undeniable'.

And to stress the role of the disappeared leader, he said that 'before Torrijos we were a protectorate, made up and its insides kidnapped, after Torrijos we began the way to the sovereign nation'.